Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada to Carry NASA’s Commercial Crew Initiative Forward
NASA will back Boeing, SpaceX andSierra Nevada with $1.1 billion during a third round of commercial crew space transportation development, top space agency officials announced on Friday. Started in 2008, the NASA-private sector partnership is intended to...Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Moves to Final Design Stage
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project is moving to the final design stage. To be located in Chile, the LSST is a proposed 8-meter wide-field survey telescope that will survey the entire sky approximately twice per week, delivering a large and...First Space-bound Orion Reaches NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
NASA hosted ceremonies on Monday marking the arrival of the first space-bound Orion/Multi-purpose Crew Vehicle at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center launch site inFlorida. The spacecraft, manufactured by Lockheed Martin at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility...Asteroids Gaining New Focus
Asteroids are gaining big time on the respect scale. Two years ago, President Obama directed NASA to alter plans for a human lunar return and focus instead on mission that would land U.S. explorers one of the small rocky bodies by 2025. The mission would...Astronauts Visit Undersea Base to Simulate Asteroid Exploration
Four U.S., European and Japanese astronauts will evaluate a range of asteroid exploration strategies, following their descent on Monday to NOAA’s Aquarius Reef Base under sea habitat off Key Largo,Fla., for a 12-day stay. Astronaut Dottie Metcalf-Lindenburger, a...Take a Look! New Mars Atlas Spotlights Impact Craters
When you look up at the Earth’s moon – it’s obvious that it was on the receiving end of impacting objects. New research is also showing that Mars too is a beaten up and battered world. Here’s the count, according to scientists identifying impact craters on the red...Asteroid Vesta Video: World of Color Revealed
A new video from NASA’s Dawn mission has been issued that shows the giant asteroid Vesta in colorful terms. This newly issued visualization enables a detailed view of the variation in the material properties of Vesta in the context of its topography. The colors were...Dragon Flyby Sets Stage for 1st U. S. Commercial Space Station Mission
The unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carried out a successful flyby of the International Space Staton early Thursday, a milestone in the company’s bid to achieve the first U. S. commercial re-supply mission to the orbiting science laboratory. The four hour...SpaceX, NASA Forge New Course in Space Exploration
SpaceX forged a new course in space operations Tuesday, as the company’s Falcon 9 rocket and cargo carrying Dragon capsule raced into Earth orbit on the first U. S. commecial re-supply mission to the International Space Staton. The nine-day mission, flying under...Space Talk
Dragon will also announce its arrival with a brief sonic boom prior to splashing down in the Pacific Ocean
@FreddyLA7 @NASA @AstroAnnimal There’s no place like space, and Orion is a pretty great ride! ✨
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A @SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft undocked from the space station at 12:25pm ET today and will return to Earth packed with science experiments and cargo for analysis and retrieval on Wednesday. More... https://go.nasa.gov/4vhj3sb
